Table Definitions for Safari and Firefox

Question

All of the sudden my method to make a table 100% of the
vertical height of a browser window in Safari and Firefox for the
Mac has ceased to work. It works fine on PCs. I used both
Dreamweaver and GoLive in my efforts. Anythougts on how to more
appropriately or alternatively set this definition correctly?

Answer 1

Here's the deal.
A doctype on an HTML page tells the browser how to render the
page. If
there is no doctype, or if there is an invalid one, the page
is rendered in
quirks mode. If there is a valid doctype, the page is
rendered in standards
mode.
DMX inserted a broken doctype on the page (i.e., functionally
equivalent to
no doctype). Earlier versions inserted NO doctype. Hence, all
these pages
are rendered in quirks mode.
In quirks mode, the browser makes an attempt to render
invalid HTML. Not
all browsers attempt the same rendering - so you will see a
variety of
differences, comparing one browser to the next on the same
page.
In standards mode, the browsers all render the same (so they
say - but in
practice, while not true, it's much more uniform).
Table height is invalid HTML. It always has been - it was
never a part of
HTML's specs.
Browsers in quirks mode will try to render table heights.
Browsers in
standards mode willl not.
Geddit?
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
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> All of the sudden my method to make a table 100% of the
vertical height of
> a
> browser window in Safari and Firefox for the Mac has
ceased to work. It
> works
> fine on PCs. I used both Dreamweaver and GoLive in my
efforts. Anythougts
> on
> how to more appropriately or alternatively set this
definition correctly?
>
>
>